US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 28 for "Methods and compositions for nucleic acid sequencing" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,541, issued on July 28, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for nucleic acid sequencing" was invented by Robert C. Kain (San Diego), Xiaohai Liu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Wenyi Feng (San Diego), Bernard Hirschbein (San Francisco), Helmy A. Eltoukhy (Atherton, Calif.), Xiaolin Wu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Geoffrey Paul Smith (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jonathan Mark Boutell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Joseph (San Diego), Randall Smith (San Diego), Min-Jui Richard Shen (Poway, Calif.), Carolyn Tregidgo (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Kay Klausing (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "T...